C.S.

E-Mains 1985
PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
PAPER - I
SECTION A
1. Answer any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:
(a) What factors you would consider for determining the span of Management of an
enterprise?
(b) Define informal groups and formal groups . How do you harmonies the two while
designing an organization?
(c) Discuss alternative methods used for decision making under uncertainly.
(d) Examine the role of national income analysis in business forecasting?
2. Formulate a Hypothesis on any problem. Recommend with basis, the process of t
esting such
hypothesis.
3. Give your assessment of the impact of recent changes in Industrial Policy on
enterprise decisions.and
plans in India.
SECTION B
PART I (Marketing Management)
4. Answer any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:
(a) Differentiate marketing strategy in rural and urban areas of any one product
.
(b) How do you measure sales-force efficiency? Give appropriate ifiustrations.
(c) Give your assessment of fre trade zohes in export promotion.
(d) Formulate a marketing communication mix for computer sales in India.
5. What are the differences between Descriptive and Experimental Research design in
Marketing
Research? Elaborate different methods of any one research design.
6. Critically examine the role of State Trading Organizations in export promotio
n in India.
PART II (Production and Materials Management)
7. Answer any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:
(a) What are the factors considered for deciding location of a plant
(b) Under what conditions, one selects job-shop production to that of line assem
bly process?
(c) How will you minimize time and cost overruns in completing a project?
(d) How are Make or Buy decisions made? Discuss with illustrations.
8. What are the causes of Industrial wastes in India? Suggest methods to minimize
the industrial
waste.
9. To make a choice of the types of attribute sampling inspection one has to con
sider the relative costsbenefits
of their various types and ultimate purpose of quality assurance. Explain.
PART III (Financial Management)
10. Answer any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:
(a) How do you use Sensitivity Analysis for evaluating an investment project?
(b) Which are the transactions that effect working capital of a firm and how?
(c) What are the methods for measuring cost of equity capital? Give your recomme
ndations.
(d) How will you proceed to develop a performance budget in a giant industrial u
nit?
11. How do leverage ratios help in determining long term solvency of a firm? State
if these nations can
be exclusive criterion for deciding loan sanction by Indian Financial Institutio
ns. Give reasons.
12. Critically examine the hypothesis of irrelevance of dividends and its relevanc
e to UTI, LIC and
IDBI.
PART IV (Personnel Management)
13. Answer any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:

(a) How does an organization create a reliable supply of personnel?

(b) What are different types of interviews used in Personnel Management? Explain
their utility in
Indian perspective.
(c) What is the difference between project sharing and bonus payment ? Critically exa
mine the
feasibility of introducing project haring in Indian firms.
(d) Is workers participation in management conductive to industrial peace ? Just
ify your answer.
14. What are the management styles in practice in Public Sector arid Private com
panies in India? Is there
any convergence of style? Discuss.
15. What is the machinery for the plrevention and settlement of disputes availab
le in India? Give your
evaluation of machinery adopted frequently in India
PAPER - II
SECTION A
1. Comment on any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:
(a) The ability to administer other people is a skill, an art
It is a practical art
, and practice is
essential to make it perfect much practice. But practice wholly divorced from st
udy is
likely to be limited in its results...
(b) The job descriptions that are needed for organization planning must be direct
ed towards
hierarchical relationship and responsibilities.
(c) The critical knowledge and the indispensable skill for effective supervision
is nothing less
than personal leadership.
(d) The proper: determination of positions which can be filled by selection of th
e ablest
employees for advancement... and the proper balance between inside and outside r
ecruitment
lie at the very heart of good personnel administration.
2. (a) Because the person who accepts proposals may do so for a variety of motive
s, there will be
seen in any organization a number of different types of authority relationship,
corresponding
to these different motives for acceptance. Explain.
(b) Examine the view that when one understands the relations between line and ove
rhead units,
he also understands the problem of central-field relations.
3. (a) Discuss the functional prerequisites of decision making.
(b) Coordination..., is the determining principle of organization, the form which
contains all
other principle, the beginning and end of all organized effort. Elucidate.
4. (a) Discuss the forms and techniques of Legislative control over administrati
ve agencies. What
are their limitations?
(b) Examine the role of O & M as a technique of administrative management and di
scuss the
qualities essential for an O & M officer.
SECTION B
5. Comment on any three of the following in not more than 200 words each:
(a) The State shall, in particular, direct its policy towards, securing...that th
e operation of the
economic system does not result the concentration of wealth and means of product
ion to the
common detriment.

(Article 39 (c) of the Constitution of India. )

(b) The Rules of Business, Secretariat Instructions and Office Manuals seem to be
generally too
didactic and confining, too detailed and unimaginative They seem to assume and to
.
encourage that literal mindedness which damps the spirit, imagination and judgme
nt which
are important to good administration.
(c) The Comptroller and Auditor General function is not really a very important o
ne. Auditors
don t know, and can t be expected to know, very much about good administration. What
auditors know is auditing which is not administration; it is a necessary but high
ly
pedestrian with a narrow perspective and very limited usefulness.
(d) Sadly enough, Panchayati Raj has not received fair treatment at the hands of
those who have
been holding the resins of political power in the land
6. (a) Give, in brief, an evaluation of the Indian administrative system as an i
nstrument of economic
and social change.
(b) The British concept of the single British District Officer or Collector, coor
dinating all
authority in all departments over an entire area in his hands still continues to
be an important
texture of the local administrative structure and colours the whole of its opera
tions. Examine
the validity of this observation.
7. (a) Examine the view, that the success of parliamentary democracy in India re
quires a radical
change in its party system.
(b) No civil service can insulate itself from its ecology, and the state-level bu
reaucracy in India
has remained much more exposed to political forces and pressures. Discuss.
8. (a) The problems of administrative appraisal are very considerable indeed Howe
ver, we can
reasonably, start by considering two opposite but well-entrenched types of cultu
ral belief.
One is that the appropriate controller of specialists should himself be a specia
list. The other is
that the controller should be an administrator who is well versed in public poli
cy needs and
administrative feasibility , but has no other relevant qualifications. Discuss, with
reference
to the situation in India, the relative merits of the two views.
(b) Examine the utility of the Lokpal and the Lokayukta as special institutions
meant for the
redressal of citizens grievances.